Revoke Access When Identity Ownership Ends
Access is often granted deliberately and removed accidentally. A developer joins a project and receives repository access. A contractor gets an administrative role for a migration. A service account is created for an integration. Months later, the person leaves, the project ends, or the integration is replaced, but some of the access remains. That leftover access is a security problem because its original justification has disappeared. A credential may still work, a group membership may still grant permissions, or an unattended service identity may still be able to call sensitive systems. If that identity or credential is later misused, the system may accept the request even though nobody can explain why the access still exists.